PARTNERSHIP: Toowoomba Clydesdales chairman Paul Reedy, Gold Coast Titans chief executive Graham Annesley and Toowoomba Rugby League chairman Allen Pyne announce an NRL trial game in Toowoomba and a partnership between the TRL and the Titans at City Golf Club.Contributed

Titans announce NRL trial game against Cowboys in Toowoomba

THE Gold Coast Titans will play the North Queensland Cowboys in a trial match at Clive Berghofer Stadium on February 22 in the first NRL action in the Garden City for seven years.

Titans chief executive Graham Annesley was in Toowoomba today at City Golf Club to announce the game and a partnership with Toowoomba Rugby League and the Clydesdales.

"We are thrilled to be taking rugby league back to Toowoomba; a region which has a great rugby league tradition," Annesley said.

"Over the last few years the Titans have taken pre-season games to different areas in northern New South Wales and the Gold Coast, so it's great that we can expand that reach to another area in south-east Queensland."

The game could see Roma junior Ben Ridge run out for the Titans against a Cowboys team possibly boasting former All Whites playmaker Johnathan Thurston.

TRL chairman Allen Pyne is thrilled with the partnership with the Titans.

"I'm extremely excited about the prospects that the new alliance with the Titans will bring for rugby league in our area," Pyne said.